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12/27/2024
Dark Web Facial ID Farm Warning—Hackers Build Identity Fraud Database
Forbes
Update, Dec. 27, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 25 now includes a breakdown of the know your customer attack threat methodology that the newly discovered dark web facial identity resource brings to the identity fraud table along with mitigation against the threat and an additional example of how banking biometrics can be bypassed by determined attackers.
A dark web criminal operation that appears to have been farming facial ID images along with the genuine identity documents that accompany them has been unmasked, if you’ll pardon the pun, by threat intelligence researchers. Here’s everything you need to know about this sophisticated approach to identity theft that, it would seem likely, has been using information willingly exchanged for financial reward to build the ID farming business.
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